Gennadiy Jozefavichus
Traveler
About me
Travel journalist, columnist and presenter.
I was born (in 1967) and grew up in Kaliningrad, from where I left when I was 17 (with a gold medal and second place in the hammer throw) for Moscow to enroll at Moscow State University in the Department of Economics. Why Economics? I do not know - it was a compromise between a rational way of thinking (I always won Olympiads in mathematics and physics) and humanitarian aspirations.
I got in. I studied for five years, then spent another three years in graduate school, but by the time the study was over (in 1992), the subject of my research (Soviet planned economy) had passed away. So I switched to cinema (as a student I was president of the university film club) - I worked in the directorate of the Moscow Film Festival, in the distribution office, wrote about cinema, organized screenings of Swiss cinema, was a press secretary (for example, of Oliver Stone) and traveled around festivals.
Around the same time, in 1994, I started publishing (with K. Ernst, R. Khasiev and A. Rodnyansky) the magazine Matador. Made big film premieres: "Dracula", "J.R.K.", "The Fifth Element", "Titanic", practically laying the foundation and traditions of a premiere screening (with a red carpet and sponsors). He was noticed by Mikhalkov and invited to do the campaign and the world premiere of "The Barber of Siberia". At the same time he did the launch of Russian Standard Vodka.
In February 1999, "The Barber" premiered in the Kremlin. After that I could not get out of Mikhalkov's embrace for another ten years: I did the opening and the closing of the Moscow Film Festival, the Golden Eagle ceremony, organized the MIFF club and the Festival Youth Forum.
I wrote a lot - from the end of the nineties I was a columnist for Harper's Bazaar, the author of Domovoy, Vogue. From the first issue of Tatler I was its guest editor, from the beginning of Condé Nast Traveller I was its special correspondent. For many years I have written the last page of Aeroflot Premium magazine. Author of the Moscow section of the Scandinavian gastronomic guide 12 Forward and Moscow correspondent for World of Mouth and Local Tongue.
He has written a couple of books - the Afisha guide to Milan and the travelogue "Sakartvelo Gaumarjos" about a trip to Georgia with the Totibadze brothers.
I continue to write about food and travel, am one of the 100 World Restaurant Award judges, lecture, write scripts, lead workshops, cook, collect, host events, invent. I am raising my daughter of 10 years. Or is she raising me?
Before the pandemic I spent no more than 50 days a year in Moscow, with quarantine I settled down and, though forced, but with pleasure, began to spend more time at home.
I was born (in 1967) and grew up in Kaliningrad, from where I left when I was 17 (with a gold medal and second place in the hammer throw) for Moscow to enroll at Moscow State University in the Department of Economics. Why Economics? I do not know - it was a compromise between a rational way of thinking (I always won Olympiads in mathematics and physics) and humanitarian aspirations.
I got in. I studied for five years, then spent another three years in graduate school, but by the time the study was over (in 1992), the subject of my research (Soviet planned economy) had passed away. So I switched to cinema (as a student I was president of the university film club) - I worked in the directorate of the Moscow Film Festival, in the distribution office, wrote about cinema, organized screenings of Swiss cinema, was a press secretary (for example, of Oliver Stone) and traveled around festivals.
Around the same time, in 1994, I started publishing (with K. Ernst, R. Khasiev and A. Rodnyansky) the magazine Matador. Made big film premieres: "Dracula", "J.R.K.", "The Fifth Element", "Titanic", practically laying the foundation and traditions of a premiere screening (with a red carpet and sponsors). He was noticed by Mikhalkov and invited to do the campaign and the world premiere of "The Barber of Siberia". At the same time he did the launch of Russian Standard Vodka.
In February 1999, "The Barber" premiered in the Kremlin. After that I could not get out of Mikhalkov's embrace for another ten years: I did the opening and the closing of the Moscow Film Festival, the Golden Eagle ceremony, organized the MIFF club and the Festival Youth Forum.
I wrote a lot - from the end of the nineties I was a columnist for Harper's Bazaar, the author of Domovoy, Vogue. From the first issue of Tatler I was its guest editor, from the beginning of Condé Nast Traveller I was its special correspondent. For many years I have written the last page of Aeroflot Premium magazine. Author of the Moscow section of the Scandinavian gastronomic guide 12 Forward and Moscow correspondent for World of Mouth and Local Tongue.
He has written a couple of books - the Afisha guide to Milan and the travelogue "Sakartvelo Gaumarjos" about a trip to Georgia with the Totibadze brothers.
I continue to write about food and travel, am one of the 100 World Restaurant Award judges, lecture, write scripts, lead workshops, cook, collect, host events, invent. I am raising my daughter of 10 years. Or is she raising me?
Before the pandemic I spent no more than 50 days a year in Moscow, with quarantine I settled down and, though forced, but with pleasure, began to spend more time at home.
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About me
Travel journalist, columnist and presenter.
I was born (in 1967) and grew up in Kaliningrad, from where I left when I was 17 (with a gold medal and second place in the hammer throw) for Moscow to enroll at Moscow State University in the Department of Economics. Why Economics? I do not know - it was a compromise between a rational way of thinking (I always won Olympiads in mathematics and physics) and humanitarian aspirations.
I got in. I studied for five years, then spent another three years in graduate school, but by the time the study was over (in 1992), the subject of my research (Soviet planned economy) had passed away. So I switched to cinema (as a student I was president of the university film club) - I worked in the directorate of the Moscow Film Festival, in the distribution office, wrote about cinema, organized screenings of Swiss cinema, was a press secretary (for example, of Oliver Stone) and traveled around festivals.
Around the same time, in 1994, I started publishing (with K. Ernst, R. Khasiev and A. Rodnyansky) the magazine Matador. Made big film premieres: "Dracula", "J.R.K.", "The Fifth Element", "Titanic", practically laying the foundation and traditions of a premiere screening (with a red carpet and sponsors). He was noticed by Mikhalkov and invited to do the campaign and the world premiere of "The Barber of Siberia". At the same time he did the launch of Russian Standard Vodka.
In February 1999, "The Barber" premiered in the Kremlin. After that I could not get out of Mikhalkov's embrace for another ten years: I did the opening and the closing of the Moscow Film Festival, the Golden Eagle ceremony, organized the MIFF club and the Festival Youth Forum.
I wrote a lot - from the end of the nineties I was a columnist for Harper's Bazaar, the author of Domovoy, Vogue. From the first issue of Tatler I was its guest editor, from the beginning of Condé Nast Traveller I was its special correspondent. For many years I have written the last page of Aeroflot Premium magazine. Author of the Moscow section of the Scandinavian gastronomic guide 12 Forward and Moscow correspondent for World of Mouth and Local Tongue.
He has written a couple of books - the Afisha guide to Milan and the travelogue "Sakartvelo Gaumarjos" about a trip to Georgia with the Totibadze brothers.
I continue to write about food and travel, am one of the 100 World Restaurant Award judges, lecture, write scripts, lead workshops, cook, collect, host events, invent. I am raising my daughter of 10 years. Or is she raising me?
Before the pandemic I spent no more than 50 days a year in Moscow, with quarantine I settled down and, though forced, but with pleasure, began to spend more time at home.
I was born (in 1967) and grew up in Kaliningrad, from where I left when I was 17 (with a gold medal and second place in the hammer throw) for Moscow to enroll at Moscow State University in the Department of Economics. Why Economics? I do not know - it was a compromise between a rational way of thinking (I always won Olympiads in mathematics and physics) and humanitarian aspirations.
I got in. I studied for five years, then spent another three years in graduate school, but by the time the study was over (in 1992), the subject of my research (Soviet planned economy) had passed away. So I switched to cinema (as a student I was president of the university film club) - I worked in the directorate of the Moscow Film Festival, in the distribution office, wrote about cinema, organized screenings of Swiss cinema, was a press secretary (for example, of Oliver Stone) and traveled around festivals.
Around the same time, in 1994, I started publishing (with K. Ernst, R. Khasiev and A. Rodnyansky) the magazine Matador. Made big film premieres: "Dracula", "J.R.K.", "The Fifth Element", "Titanic", practically laying the foundation and traditions of a premiere screening (with a red carpet and sponsors). He was noticed by Mikhalkov and invited to do the campaign and the world premiere of "The Barber of Siberia". At the same time he did the launch of Russian Standard Vodka.
In February 1999, "The Barber" premiered in the Kremlin. After that I could not get out of Mikhalkov's embrace for another ten years: I did the opening and the closing of the Moscow Film Festival, the Golden Eagle ceremony, organized the MIFF club and the Festival Youth Forum.
I wrote a lot - from the end of the nineties I was a columnist for Harper's Bazaar, the author of Domovoy, Vogue. From the first issue of Tatler I was its guest editor, from the beginning of Condé Nast Traveller I was its special correspondent. For many years I have written the last page of Aeroflot Premium magazine. Author of the Moscow section of the Scandinavian gastronomic guide 12 Forward and Moscow correspondent for World of Mouth and Local Tongue.
He has written a couple of books - the Afisha guide to Milan and the travelogue "Sakartvelo Gaumarjos" about a trip to Georgia with the Totibadze brothers.
I continue to write about food and travel, am one of the 100 World Restaurant Award judges, lecture, write scripts, lead workshops, cook, collect, host events, invent. I am raising my daughter of 10 years. Or is she raising me?
Before the pandemic I spent no more than 50 days a year in Moscow, with quarantine I settled down and, though forced, but with pleasure, began to spend more time at home.
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